[Gusdev-gusdev] why do we need GeneInstanceCategory and friends?

[Steve F. <sfi...@pc...>]

 folks-

mike and i are moving ahead putting together the new GUS 3.5 install 
procedure.  It will include pipelines to introduce bootstrap data.

Some of the data that GUS seems to need are values for:
  DoTS.GeneInstanceCategory
  DoTS.RNAInstanceCategory
  DoTS.ProteinInstanceCatetory

I am wondering why we need these categories.  It seems to me that if the 
category would be implicit in the feature and/or sequence that the 
instance is linking to.

here are the suspicious values we have in CBIL's GUS for these tables:

SQL> select name from Dots.RNAINSTANCEcategory;
unknown
mRNA
assembly
 
SQL> select name from Dots.proteininstancecategory;
inferred from Assembly
GenBank transcript
 
SQL> select name from Dots.geneinstancecategory;
gDG
unknown